Hi Shamus,
I’ve found you via your wife, via Christian Women Online ‘In “other” words’, I’m Susan.
And I’m dyslexic and have memory problems, and my eldest son has dyslexia and dyspraxia.
My eldest son, Michael, is just about to start university on a games course, which is something he’s always wanted to do.
I’ll wave your blog in his direction.

Oh aren’t all computer programmers introverts then? My husband is a business systems analysist who has not programmed in a few years, and he’s dyslexic too! And he sat next to someone for 5 years with out knowing their name :)

Ahem. I think this is hilarious, but I do have a problem with people saying, “OMG JRR TOLKIEN IS SOOOOO CLICHÉ!” The reason for this, of course, was when he wrote it, it was so frickin awesome that IT BECAME A CLICHÉ BECAUSE EVERYONE WAS TRYING TO REPLICATE THE AWESOMENESS!